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The Bacchae And Other Plays
Euripides

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin

The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and Rhesuscompletes the new editions of Euripides in Penguin Cl... Buy or find out more 


Complete Plays Of Sophocles A New Translation
Sophocles

$23.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

Award-winning poet-playwrights Robert Bagg and James Scully present a gripping new translation of Western literature’s earliest treasures in The Complete Plays of Sophocles. In the tradition of Robert Fagles’ bestselling... Buy or find out more 



Man From Mukinupin
Dorothy Hewett

$18.95 – Paperback book / Univ Nsw Pr

This comic musical play celebrates life in a country town at the time of the Great War, conjuring its light and dark sides into an old fertility dance. Buy or find out more 


Songs For Nobodies
Murray Smith Joanna

$18.95 – Paperback book / Currency

When a great singer lets her voice float out over the anonymous crowd, or form the grooves of thousands of records, or flow through radios into millions of homes across the world, she makes countless unknown connections ... Buy or find out more 



The Female Of The Species
Joanna Murray-Smith

$21.95 – Paperback book / Univ Nsw Pr

Thirty years ago Margot Mason, pioneer of the 1970s Women’s Liberation movement and fearless academic, wrote her groundbreaking work and numerous best-sellers followed. Now she has writer’s block. Molly, an unannounced v... Buy or find out more 


Blood Wedding
Federico Garcia Lorca

$22.95 – Paperback book /

Blood Wedding is set in a village community in Lorca's Andalusia, and tells the story of a couple drawn irresistibly together in the face of an arranged marriage. This tragic and poetic play is the work on which his inte... Buy or find out more 



Waiting For Godot
Samuel Beckett

$24.95 – Paperback book / Faber

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful.'



This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterise the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de Babylone in 1953. He went on to pr... Buy or find out more 


The History Boys
Alan Bennett

$24.95 – Paperback book / Faber

An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the young and shrewd supply teacher; a headmaster obsessed with results; a hist... Buy or find out more 



Thhe Complete Works Rsc Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

$89.95 – Hardcover book / Palgrave

Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this fresh new Complete Works combines the very latest scholarship with elegant writing and design. It boasts a wealth of features that will appeal to public a... Buy or find out more 


Richard II
William Shakespeare

$13.95 – Paperback book / Oxford University Pr

The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offer authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-sp... Buy or find out more 



Hedda Gabler and Other Plays
Henrik Ibsen

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

In these three unforgettably intense plays, Henrick Ibsen explores the problems of personal and social morality that he perceived in the world around him and, in particular, the complex nature of truth. Buy or find out more 


Hamlet
William Shakespeare

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books

Arguably William Shakespeare's most influential play, Hamlet portrays a young Prince's dilemma in choosing between moral integrity and the need for revenge following the murder of his father. Dealing with themes of love,... Buy or find out more 



Complete Plays Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov

$27.95 – Paperback book / W W Norton

This stunning new translation presents the only truly complete edition of the plays of one of the greatest dramatists in history. Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works interpreted and adapted interna... Buy or find out more 


The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Oscar Wilde

$9.95 – Paperback book / Classics

Oscar Wilde's complex identity, as family man and homosexual outsider, socialite, socialist and Irish nationalist, underpins his unique insight into role-playing and the masks we all wear. A Woman of No Importance, for a... Buy or find out more 



Burn After Reading Script
Joel and Ethan Coen

$24.95 – Paperback book / Faber

A disk containing the memoirs of an alcoholic and former CIA agent, Ozzie Cox (John Malkovich), ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees (Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand) who attempt to sell it. An oversexe... Buy or find out more 


The Complete Pelican Shakespeare
Stephen Orgel & A. R. Braunmuller (Ed)

$69.95 – Hard back / Penguin

THE CLASSIC ONE-VOLUME SHAKESPEARE, INCLUDING ALL THE PLAYS AND POEMS, NOW COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED.

The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series has sold five million copies. Now Penguin is proud to offer this ful... Buy or find out more 



Furious Mattress
Melissa Reeves

$21.95 – Paperback book / Univ Nsw Pr

In the heartland of rural Victoria, a backyard exorcism is about to commence. Else has always been a little different, even a little difficult, but when her husband seeks support from his local religious community, what ... Buy or find out more 


This Year's Ashes
Jane Bodie

$18.95 – Paperback book / Currency

There are rules in this city:

One. Never bring them back to your own place

Two. Never more than three shags

Three. Never tell them your real name

Four. Never mention the cricket

Five. Never (ever) cry

Ellen lives a shiny... Buy or find out more 



Neighbourhood Watch
Lally Katz

$18.95 – Paperback book / Univ Nsw Pr

And God said: Thou shalt love thy neighbour. He obviously hadn’t reckoned on Ana.

Neighbourhood Watch is a glorious new comedy about hope, death and pets. It’s a classic odd-couple story: opposites attract, and from ea... Buy or find out more 


Wolf Creek
Sonya Hartnett

$16.95 – Paperback book / Currency

In 2005, the horror film Wolf Creek depicted the abduction and torture of three backpackers in the Australian outback, and created an immediate industry and media frenzy. Wolf Creek tapped into the myth of the lonely con... Buy or find out more 



Blood Knot And Other Plays
Athol Fugard

$23.95 – Paperback book /

Inlcudes 'Boesman and Lena' and 'Hello and Goodbye' Buy or find out more 


Ninety
Joanna Murray-Smith

$21.95 – Paperback book / Univ Nsw Pr

It is no use, but William gives Isabel ninety minutes anyway. They were once married, but something happened. Something broke deep down in the mechanism of their lives together and, seeing no way to repair it, they threw... Buy or find out more 



Blak Inside Enuff I Dont Wanna Play House Belonging
Anderson

$24.95 – Paperback book / Currency

Contains six plays: Enuff by John Harding is a frightening and funny play about an Australian future where black patience has run out. A violent uprising is planned for Reconciliation Day -- will retribution or forgivene... Buy or find out more 


Eight Plays
Arthur Schnitzler

$57.95 – Paperback book / Northwestern Univ Pr

The plays of Arthur Schnitzler have in recent years come to be recognized as masterpieces of modernism. This collection presents the most accurate translations available of Schnitzler's works, passing up opportunities to... Buy or find out more 



Collected Plays Of Edward Albee 1978 2003
Edward Albee

$35.95 – Paperback book / Overlook Press

Brings readers up to date with one of the most varied and brilliant periods in the career of a true American master playwright, including his most influential and iconoclastic plays to date. Buy or find out more 


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